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USEFUL PLANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF LAKHIMPUR. 
Dibrugarh. Nos. 43 and 138. 
Local name.* — Baga bahek ; arusa. 
Distrib. — Throughout India and 'Ceylon. Also Malaya and S. E. 
Asia. 
A shrub with short spikes of white and pink two-lipped flowers. Common in hedges and 
round about dwellings. The entire plant is boiled and the expressed juice, sometimes mixed 
with honey, is used as a remedy for cough. 
LXXYI. RUBIACEJ2. 
174. Hedy otis Linn. 
213. H. stipulata Br. F. B. I. iii, 63. 
Oldenlandia kirsuta Linn. f. Eng. & Prantl iv, 4, 25. 
Dibrugarh. No. 350. 
Local name. — Barall bokoa. 
Distrib. — Temperate Himalayas to. Assam. Also Java and Japan. 
A slender sticky herb. Wrapped in a plantain leaf and given to cattle, it is said to cure 
them of worms and sores in the skin (probably the larvse of a Blue-bottle, Pyenosoma, which 
not infrequently breeds in wounds and sores in Assam.) 
175. Vncaria Sfchreb. 
214. U. sessilifructus Roxb. F. B. I.iii, 30; FI. Ind. 1, 520; Beng. 
PI. 553. 
Jungle near Dibrugarh. No. $06. 
Local name. — Burukhti akhuha. 
Distrib. — From East Bengal to Burma. 
A creeper found in the jungle about Dibrugarh. As in other Uncarias some of the in- 
florescences are modified to form stout recurved hooks. The cut stems give water freely with 
w hich wanderers in the jungle quench their thirst. The bark is boiled and the w'ater, strained 
off, is used as a mordant. 
176. Gardenia Linn. 
215. G. campanulata Roxb. F. B. I. iii ; 118; Eng. & Prantl iv, 4, 
77 ; FI. Ind. i, 710 ; Beng. PI. 565; D. E, P. in, 479. 
Margherita. Nos. 115 and 116. 
Local name. — Bimana. 
Dlstrib. — From the Eastern Himalayas to Burma. 
A shrub w'ith opposite branches most of which end in stout thorns, and yellow globular 
fruits about 2 inches in diameter. The juice of the fruit is used as a fish poison. 
